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Murfreesboro: 5^th April 1819.

Gentlemen,

I was duly honored with the receipt
of your letter, touching your appointment from the
President of the United States authorizing you with
Col: Cannon to hold a treaty with the Chickasaw Na=
tion of Indians, for the purpose of obtaining a [assign?]
of their claim to a salt spring referred to in the [4^th?]
article of the late treaty held by Jackson & Shelby with
said tribe of Indians

I acknowledge that the Legislature of
the United States have acted very generously in trans=
=ferring their right in this Spring, to the State of
Tennessee, and I also admit the Justice of charging
this State with the necessary expenditures: But I have
to regret being compelled to assure you that there
are no funds at my disposal by which to enable
you to effect this very desirable object.

It is therefore obvious that no pubic re=
=sources can be placed at your command until the